Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name

Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of most blessed power in those moments of pain and of langour, when the whole head is sore, and the whole heart sick. If those who rail indiscriminately at this species of composition, were to consider the quantity of actual pleasure it produces, and the much greater proportion of real sorrow and distress which it alleviates, their philanthropy ought to moderate their critical pride, or religious intolerance.

The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.

Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!

But with morning cool repentance came.